Articles About Village Council

• Village Council considers repealing economic incentive policy

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 13, 2025

  

  According to Village Solicitor Amy Blankenship and Planning and Economic Development Director Meg Leatherman, a the Village’s economic incentive policy complicates the process of new businesses, developments or nonprofits setting up shop in Yellow Springs.

• Online posts raise concerns over privacy, transparency

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 30, 2025

  

  A group of messages shared in a local Facebook group earlier this month has raised questions, both broad and specific, about transparency and ethics within public bodies and the separation of public identities from private ones.

• With $680k pledged for new soccer fields, LIHTC project advances

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 27, 2025

  

  Should Woda Cooper successfully be awarded the $15 million in low-income housing tax credits from the Ohio Housing Finance Agency to build a low-income housing development, the district would have $689,000 to turn the Joneses’ cornfield into playable soccer fields.

• More LIHTC questions than answers at school board meeting

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 16, 2025

  

  At the center of the fraught discussion was the ongoing, intergovernmental initiative to build a 30- to 50-unit low-income housing development on the district-owned Morgan soccer fields.

• LIHTC developer seeks site control of district-owned land

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 8, 2025

  

  As was discussed at Monday’s Village Council meeting, one matter still stands in the way of Columbus-based development company Woda Cooper LLC applying for the $15 million in low-income tax credits: getting site control of the Morgan Fields from the school district.

• 2024 In Review | Government

  By YS News StaffDecember 30, 2024

  

  2024 In Review: Village Government, Village Council, Planning Commission, Miami Township Trustees and the 2024 General Election.

• Village Council selects low-income housing developer

  By Reilly DixonDecember 23, 2024

  

  After finalizing the development agreement with the Village, Woda Cooper will apply to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency for $15 million in federal low-income housing tax credits.

• Village Planning Commission recommends repealing Gateway Overlay District

  By Reilly DixonDecember 16, 2024

  

  At the most recent Planning Commission meeting, Tuesday, Dec. 10, the group revisited — and ultimately recommended to repeal — an anomalous and oft-under-referenced section of the Yellow Springs zoning code: the Gateway Overlay District.

• Village Council approves 2025 budget, exempts senior housing money

  By Reilly DixonDecember 11, 2024

  

  In the second-to-last regular Village Council meeting of the year, held Monday, Dec. 2, Council members voted 5-0 in favor of finalizing the $18,102,489 municipal budget for 2025.

• School board approves sale option for LIHTC project

  By Lauren ShowsDecember 4, 2024

  

  Mirroring a decision made by Village Council earlier the same week, the YS Board of Education voted 3–2 during a special meeting Thursday, Nov. 21, to approve an option to purchase agreement with the Village of Yellow Springs.